Wace

Layamon

Society of Antiquaries of London

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Or Chronicle of Britain: a Poetical Semi-Saxon Paraphrase of the Brut of Wace

Lazamons Brut

Lawman

Lawman Wace

The Life of King Arthur (Everyman Paperback Classics)

Arthurian Chronicles Represented by Wace and Layamon

Mediaeval Academy of America

The spread of the Arthurian legend during the course of the twelfth century is one of the most remarkable phenomena in literary history. Arthurian Chronicles looks at two unsung but deserving poets who contributed to the diffusion of the legend, Wace who preceded the more famous Chretien de Troyes, and Layamon, who followed him. Wace was of an inquiring turn of mind, with, for his day, a scholarly and sceptical approach to lais, marvellous tales, and fables. `Not all lies, nor all true, all foolishness, nor all sense. So much have the story-tellers told, and so much have the makers of fables fabled to embellish their stories, that they have made all seem fable,' he writes. He was the first to mention the famous Round Table. In Layamon's Brut, Arthur, hero and emperor, makes his first appearance in English vernacular literature. It is Layamon who tells of the elves that attended on the infant Arthur and endowed him with gifts and qualities; he also launched Arthur after his last battle to Argante in Avallon, to be healed of his wounds. In this English language prose translation of the Wace and Layamon Arthurian poems, the folk-tale ferocity of Arthur is made as exciting to the readers as to the poets who contributed so much to Arthur's legend. Originally published by J.M. Dent & Sons,1962.

Arthurian Chronicles

The poet Wace produced a remarkable epic poem known as "Roman de Brut" in the 1100s. The poem combined a sweeping history of Britain, along with elements of Arthurian legend and folktales. This twentieth-century translation of Wace's poem provides historical context for the work, as well as a prose rendering that is accessible to modern-day readers.

Roman de Brut

The French Book of Brutus

Le Roman de Brut

The conquest of England

Master Wace, His Chronicle of the Norman Conquest from the Roman de Rou

The Conquest of England

From Wace's Poem of the Roman de Rou. Now First Translated Into English Rhyme

The Roman de Rou

Frederic Madden

Chronicles of Britain : a Poetical Semi-Saxon Paraphrase of the Brut of Wace : Now First Published from the Cottonian Manuscripts in the British Museum

Elisabeth M. C. Van Houts

Wace Wace

Wace's Roman de Rou relates the history of the Normans from Rollo (Rou) to the battle of Tinchebray, establishing their right to the English throne.

Wace's Roman de Rou

The History of the Norman People

The Conception Nostre Dame of Wace ...

Le Roman de Rou de Wace

The Conquest of England, from Wace's Poem of the Roman de Rou

Judith Weiss

Translation of the first extant vernacular 'history' of Britain by the Norman-French cleric Wace, which in turn, was a translation of the Latin prose of Geoffrey of Monmouth's History of the Kings of Britain (c.1138). Part fact, and part fiction, it traces the history of Britain from Brutus to the Anglo-Saxons.

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